Film: "After the Storm"
A private detective struggles to reconnect with his son and ex-wife in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (“Like Father, Like Son”) bittersweet dramatic comedy.
Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Ryota is a deadbeat private detective and struggling novelist who would grift his mother for a quick buck (and does). But when he’s forced to wait out a typhoon in her tiny apartment, alongside his alienated ex-wife and son, the broken family confronts their grandest dreams and deepest failures over the course of one night. A master of domestic drama, Kore-eda Hirokazu (Like Father, Like Son), crafts an intimate, compassionate family portrait, with a few smiles along the way. D: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, subtitled, 2017, 1h 57m
“This bittersweet peek into the human comedy has a more subtle charm than flashier films like the director’s child-swapping fable Like Father, Like Son, but the filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you.” The Hollywood Reporter
“Such is the finesse of Kore-eda’s script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees. Instead, it imparts those rare, liberating moments when characters revert to their most honest selves and pluck up the courage to express their deepest, albeit unattainable wishes.” Variety
Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
